The proposed project falls into the OSCE Mission to Skopje priorities of promoting the development of a professional police force and developing effective Community Based Policing in areas with strong Roma minority presence through initiatives that will develop positive relations between Roma/Sinti communities and the police, promoting anti bias trainings and awareness among law enforcement officers on Roma history and culture.

The project consists of a comprehensive five day domestic violence train-the-trainer seminar that will be piloted in Tetovo SVR. The seminar is designed to promote a multi-discipline evidence based approach to handling domestic violence investigations. Beneficiaries will be Police Officers, Social Workers and NGO’s with a family and or women’s focused agenda.

In the frame of Community Policing Program, Police Development Department (PDD) has identified the need to establish “Local Prevention Councils” (hereafter LPC) with the participation of key local stakeholders with the task to tackle, from a multi disciplinary point of view, the problems that the citizens face and, therefore, to improve the level of life in the community.